Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Jimmy Wales

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Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.

John Badham

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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.

Anand Mahindra

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine

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I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.

Tom Felton

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I like to explore sounds.

Roscoe Mitchell

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Because of Iran's support for terrorism, disrespect for human rights, and nuclear proliferation, it has been under U.S. and international sanctions for decades - and companies have been fined billions for circumventing those sanctions.

Mike Pompeo

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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

Mitch Hedberg

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I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow.

Julia Hartz

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Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

Jonny Lang

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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

Douglas Coupland

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My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Bre Pettis

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